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(largest of three tiny islets located off lower left corner of Rapa Nui in bottom left corner of map) The ritual of the "Bird Man" cult was a competition to collect the first egg of the manutara . This took place starting from Motu Nui where the Hopu (representatives from each clan) waited for the sooty terns to lay their first eggs of the season.
This is a list which includes a photographic gallery, of historic structures, of significance in Globe, Arizona, a mining town. Some are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Globe is located in the heart of Arizona's Tonto National Forest on U.S. Routes 60. Also, pictured is the historic Southern Pacific Railroad Steam Engine ...
Motunui is the location of the Motunui methanol plant, which was the largest in the world at the time of construction. [2] It was opened in 1986 to convert natural gas to methanol, then the methanol to synthetic petrol using a process developed by Mobil. The plant was one of the Think Big projects of the Third National Government.
Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. Burrus, E. J., 1971a "Kino and Manje: Explorers of Sonora and Arizona." In Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Vol. 10. Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute. Di Peso, Charles, 1953 The Sobaipuri Indians of the Upper San Pedro River Valley, Southwestern Arizona.
Panoramic view of Hopi Reservation from Arizona State Route 264 a few miles from Oraibi. The Hopi Reservation (Hopi: Hopitutskwa) is a Native American reservation for the Hopi and Arizona Tewa people, surrounded entirely by the Navajo Nation, in Navajo and Coconino counties in northeastern Arizona, United States.
The Tusayan Ruins (aka Tusayan Pueblo) is an 800-year-old Pueblo Indian site located within Grand Canyon National Park, [2] and is considered by the National Park Service (NPS) to be one of the major archeological sites in Arizona. [3] The site consists of a small, u-shaped pueblo featuring a living area, storage rooms, and a kiva. [2]
SR 179 heads northwest from the interchange briefly before curving towards the north. It keeps this heading as it passes through the red rock area of the Village of Oak Creek on its way to Sedona, just a few miles north. As it enters the Sedona city limits, it roughly follows along the east bank of Oak Creek.
The Mohave Valley is a valley located mostly on the east shore of the south-flowing Colorado River in northwest Arizona.The valley extends into California's San Bernardino County; the northern side of the valley extends into extreme southeast Clark County, Nevada.